News Item Anecdote Narrative

2. Use of relational processes to state what is and that which it is 3. Use of simple present tense unless extinct 4. No temporal sequence

4. Analytical Exposition

a. Social Function To persuade the reader or listener that something in the case. b. Generic schematic Structure 1 Thesis 2 Position : introduce topic and indicate writer‟s position 3 Preview : outline the main arguments to be presented 4 Arguments 5 Point : restates main argument outlines in preview 6 Elaboration : developer and supports each point argument 7 Reiteration : restates writer‟s position c. Significant Lexicogrammatical Features 1 Focus on generic human and non-human participants 2 Use of simple present tense 3 Use of relational processes 4 Use of internal conjunction to state argument 5 Reasoning through causal conjunction or nominalization

5. News Item

a. Social Function To inform readers, listeners or viewer, about events of the day what are considered news worthy or important. b. Generic schematic Structure 1 Newsworthy Events S: recounts the events in summary form 2 Background Events S: elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstances 3 Sources: comments by participants in witness to and authorities expert on the events. c. Significant Lexicogrammatical Features 1 Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline. 2 Use of material processes to retell the event 3 Use of projecting Verbal Processes in Sources stage 4 Focus on circumstances

6. Anecdote

a. Social Function To share with others on account of an unusual or amusing incident. b. Generic schematic Structure 1 Abstract signals the retelling of an unusual incident 2 Orientation sets the scene 3 Crisis provides details of the unusual incidents 4 Reaction : reaction to crisis 5 Coda: optional-reflection on or evaluation of the incident c. Significant Lexicogrammatical Features 1 Use of exclamations, rhetorical questions and intensifiers really, very quite, etc to point up the significance of the events. 2 Use of material processes to tell what happened. 3 Use of temporal conjunctions.

7. Narrative

a. Social Function To amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways; Narratives deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution. b. Generic schematic Structure 1 Orientation : sets the scene and introduces the participants 2 Evaluation : a sleeping back to evaluate the plight 3 Complication : a crisis arise 4 Resolution : the crisis is resolved, for better of for worse 5 Re-orientation : optional c. Significant Lexicogrammatical Features 1 Focus on specific and usually individualized participation 2 Use of Material Processes, and in this text, Behavioral and Verbal processes 3 Use of Relational Processes and Mental Processes 4 Use of temporal conjunctions and temporal Circumstance 5 Use of past tense 8. Procedure a. Social Function To describe how something is accomplish through a sequence or action or steps. b. Generic schematic Structure a. Goal b. Material not required for all procedural texts c. Step 1 – n I e goal followed by a series or steps oriented to achieving the goal c. Significant Lexicogrammatical Features a. Focus on generalized human agents b. Use of simple present tense, often imperative c. Use of mainly temporal conjunctions d. Use of mainly material processes

9. Description